I do not believe in the extra-ordinary, spiritual, metaphysical and magical assumptions or the claims, but an incident broke my faith to smithreens. What happened was experienced by the brother of my close friend Basant. What he told me is given verbatim here...

A shaggy man of around 56 visited our house. He had a bag, and a few bead-strings/rosaries in his hand. He claimed that he is omniscient. I doubted him, and asked him to tell what he knows about our family. His eyes shone, closed and opened. He said, with a glitter in his eyes, "there are 6 members, in the family. Your bachelor brother, you, your wife, your daughter, and your both parents." I thought he must have pre-asked someone, and so we tied him against/with a tree and called him bad names, thinking that he is trying to befool us, by knowing everything about us in advance, as he even told the places, where my sisters are married, their husbands' names, even of the children, and their life style and many many hidden aspects too. My mother asked me to get hold of any person from far-off outside in the village. I went out of the village almost and captured a very innocent, unknown type fellow and asked the MAN to reveal everything about him and his family. The MAN shocked and surprised us by telling everything CORRECT. I am shocked.

This is what my friend's brother told me. What is this? Is it possible? Can I acquire this capacity? Is it possible? OR, is someone lying? I have firm faith my friend never lies, as even he is a cut-throat rationalist, but is there something wrong at the bottom? If yeah, where?

They tied him to a tree and called him bad names ? And then he went out of the village, almost, and captured an innocent type fellow, and this fellow revealed the same information.

Sorry, Kahani, but this is too far fetched even for me to comprehend.

Tickle,

Tough to comprehend?

They tied him, and then my friend went out and got a man before him, and then that mysterious man told everything about him too. That's quite simple. I mean the lingo is simple, but the case is complex.

Tied him to a tree? Is that legal in your country? In this country that is a crime.

I am using the word 'comprehend' in a different context. I don't mean I can't understand what you state, I understand fully and as I stated, sounds far fetched to me even understanding the paranormal as I do.

You asked if he is lying, don't know, you only know your friend as you say.

Could he have been dreaming his situation?

Why do you find it complex ?

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Originally Posted by J_9

Tied him to a tree? Is that legal in your country? In this country that is a crime.

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It may be a crime, but in India, many such things happen, and only in rarest of rare cases do the law apply. And, that too if the accused belongs to a very low/poor and uninflunced family... Which country you are from?

To - tickle,

Yeah, it is complex, in the sense, I could not see any reason, and about my friend lying, impossible... HE CAN't as we were discussing about rationality and he is a committed rationalist, but he revealed what his brother revealed to him. This shocked and surprised me.

I am in the US and here that would be considered a crime punishable by law.

I know it's off topic, but I've always wanted to visit India.

Sometimes the powers of observation are more honed in some. Its not alwys psychic to pick up on your surroundings. Lets say upon opening the door the man noticed things. Like pictures or momentos from the occasions. He could formulate it into "knowing". Have you ever watched a Sherlock Holms movie before? The powers of deduction can be great and a learned skill.

Califdadof3,

I might have agreed with you, but in this point/case, the man, whose relationships and other aspects of his profile and those (profiles) of his relationships were revealed by him, even as he was not in his own house, but in the house of someone else. He was not even well-known to the family which brought him, there.

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Originally Posted by Kahani Punjab

Califdadof3,

I might have agreed with you, but in this point/case, the man, whose relationships and other aspects of his profile and those (profiles) of his relationships were revealed by him, even as he was not in his own house, but in the house of someone else. He was not even well-known to the family which brought him, there.

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It may surprise you what can be deduced from just an encounter with a person. I wasn't there so its hard to say. But everyone gets "feelings" when meeting someone usually called first impressions. There is a reason they call it that.